On Jul 19, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> However, we now now that there are GPL police out there and >>> enforcing the GPL on people who modify the freely available code >>> out there, but do not share their modifications :( >> It's not a GPL violation or copyright infringement to modify >> software under the GPL. It's not a GPL violatino or copyright >> infringement to keep your modifications private to yourself. > Try telling Zenwalk and Mepis that Both Zenwalk and Mepis allegedly *distribute* the code, they didn't keep it to themselves. And they allegedly distribute it only as object code, without complying with the requirements for distributing object code. That's what allegedly makes them GPL infringers. They're not merely modifying the code and refraining from sharing the modifications. As I wrote above, making modifications and refraining from distributing the result is permitted by the GPL. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
